About The Wizard

Professor Katherine Silver Kelly joined The Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law faculty in 2012. Prior to joining Moritz, Professor Kelly served as a judicial attorney for Judge Elinore Marsh Stormer at the Summit County Court of Common Pleas and then as the director of Academic Success Programs at the University of Akron School of Law.

Professor Kelly is the director of the Academic Support Program where she is responsible for Moritz’s bar exam support services. She also coaches the Child Welfare and Adoption Law moot court competition team.

Outside of Moritz, Professor Kelly is a member of the Bar Advocacy Committee of the Association of Academic Support Educators and a regular blogger at the Law School Academic Support blog. She also serves on the Berea College Alumni Executive Council, is a mentor in the Ohio Supreme Court Lawyer to Lawyer Mentoring Program, and a swim and track coach for Special Olympics.

Professor Kelly is a graduate of Berea College, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Akron School of Law, where she graduated cum laude. She graduated from Berea with a B.A. in history, earned her M.A. in education from the University of Kentucky and before attending law school was an award-winning economics and government teacher.